Paper Recycling Archives - The Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC)

New StatsCan Data Shows Paper Represents Majority of Diverted Materials

Statistics Canada released the results of its biennial Waste Management Survey1, containing waste diversion data for 2022. PPEC’s latest blog breaks down the stats and discusses the importance of recycling data. The new data shows that Canadian households and businesses diverted 9,898,882 tonnes of waste in 2022, and of the total amount diverted, 3,571,384 tonnes […]

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Paper-based Packaging Leads the Way for Ontario’s Household Blue Box Program

Blue Box, Circular Economy, Paper and Plastics Packaging, Paper Recycling, Recycling / Rachel Kagan

Paper-based packaging continues to be a success story in Ontario\’s household Blue Box program, as measured by marketed tonnage, based on new data released by the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA), the regulator mandated by the Government of Ontario to enforce the province’s circular economy laws. RPRA’s new Datacall Report summarizes information generated by the 246 programs participating

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The Facts about Sustainable Forestry and the Canadian Paper-Based Packaging Industry

Canada's Forests, Circular Economy, Paper Recycling, Recycled Content, Sustainable Forest Management / Rachel Kagan

Sustainable forest management is essential to the Canadian paper-based packaging industry and its circular economy. And yet, misconceptions surrounding forestry and paper packaging persist when it comes to how paper packaging is made. With today’s International Day of Forests, the Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC) would like to clear up some of the misconceptions by

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Article Overlooks the Importance of Recycled Content

Circular Economy, Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling, Recyclable, Recycled Content, Recycling, Sustainable Forest Management / Rachel Kagan

In the November 28th New York Times Magazine article, Where Does All the Cardboard Come From? I Had to Know, writer Matthew Shaer does a deep dive on what he refers to as the “cardboard economy” – everything from the history of who invented it, how it’s made, and its global marketplace.

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Little Green Lies: Q&A with Author John Mullinder

Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / Rachel Kagan

The Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC) sat down with its former and long-standing Executive Director, John Mullinder, who helped formed PPEC in 1990, and retired in February 2021. John recently published his new book, Little Green Lies and Other BS, which focuses on environmental claims and advertising; it is a follow up to

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Government Amends Ontario Blue Box Regulation

Blue Box, Ontario Government, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / Rachel Kagan

The Government of Ontario made amendments to the Blue Box Regulation, which came into effect on April 14, 2022. The amendments do not change the original intention of the regulation – to transition the existing Ontario Blue Box model from a shared funding model to a full producer responsibility model – and do not impact

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Discussing the Toronto Star’s Ontario Blue Box Article

Blue Box, Paper Recycling, Recycling, Targets / Rachel Kagan

On March 19, the Toronto Star published The Ford government is overhauling Ontario’s blue box recycling program — and critics say it will be a disaster, by Business Feature Writer Richard Warnica. The Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC) was interviewed for the article on February 4, but our comments about paper-based packaging in

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The Latest Ontario Blue Box Recycling Data for Paper-based Packaging

Blue Box, Circular Economy, Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling, Recycling, Waste Diversion / Rachel Kagan

Paper-based packaging continues to be the largest captured material in Ontario\’s household Blue Box program, based on new data released by the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA). Each year, municipalities, recycling associations, and First Nation communities in Ontario report on their residential waste diversion programs to RPRA, through the annual Datacall. The most recent

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Competition Bureau Archived Canadian Environmental Claims Guide: Now What?

1 Comment / Canada's Forests, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / Rachel Kagan

On November 4, 2021, the Competition Bureau archived Environmental claims: A guide for industry and advertisers, stating that: “The Guide may not reflect the Bureau’s current policies or practices and does not reflect the latest standards and evolving environmental concerns. The guide will remain available for reference, research and recordkeeping purposes, but it will not be

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Celebrating Waste Reduction Week and the Circular Economy of Paper-based Packaging

1 Comment / Circular Economy, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling, Recycled Content / John Mullinder

The Paper & Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC) is pleased to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Waste Reduction Week in Canada, taking place this week. Waste Reduction Week is an important program focused on the principles of circular economy, resource efficiency, and waste reduction; principles that PPEC and its members strongly support and apply to

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